The Wife

When Angela met Jason Powell while catering a dinner party in East Hampton, she assumed their romance would be a short-lived fling. To her surprise Jason, a brilliant economics professor at NYU, had other plans, and they married the following summer. For Angela the marriage was a chance to reboot her life, moving with her son out of her mother's home and into Manhattan, where no one knew about her tragic past.

Six years later, a bestselling book and a growing media career have made Jason a cultural lightning rod, pulling Angela toward the spotlight she worked so carefully to avoid. When a college intern makes an accusation against him, and another woman, Kerry Lynch, comes forward with an even more troubling allegation, their life begins to unravel.

Jason insists he is innocent and Angela believes him. But when Kerry disappears, Angela is forced to take a closer look at both the man she married and the women she chose not to believe. Alafair Burke's domestic thriller follows The Ex.